Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what could be really annoying about Con was that you 'd start off together , a couple of sailors on shore-leave , and at the end of your binge , you 'd be left feeling embarrassed at having gone too far . |
| 2 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 3 | What is different about obscenity is that the test requires a jury to pronounce a work wholly unfit for publication in a civilised society , which implies an immoral influence of a strikingly serious kind . |
| 4 | The implication of this for theology is that if it is really theology , it can only take place as God conveys his own Word to us and enables us to hear it ; but the Word itself always remains his and not ours . |
| 5 | The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies . |
| 6 | You can do some of Richard 's that I 'm supposed |
| 7 | Thus a full description of what is wrong with pornography is that it reinforces desires on the part of men to treat women as objects , as means , and thus , indirectly , it reinforces male power . |
| 8 | The most common thing that goes wrong with taps is that they leak either because the gland or packing has failed ( a leak from the top when the tap is open ) or because the washer has worn ( a leak from the spout when the tap is closed ) . |
| 9 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 10 | One of the exciting things about the erm introduction of this into schools is that we might actually begin to get , from a very early age , erm children clear about that the need to communicate their intentions , and that that 's what actually that 's what mathematics and similar formal systems has always been about . |
| 11 | One key reason why leasing remains popular with companies is that it enables them to expand through investment without damaging cash flow . |
| 12 | Modigliani 's style was so entirely different from Picasso 's that the two were in no way rivals . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , what was not made clear to George was that Frank had an extremely ambitious , though very pleasant , wife who insisted on participating in events to the exclusion of George , who had a very proper concern for himself . |
| 14 | What is clear beyond doubt is that the level of intensional entities can not be identified with any level or world of objectively existing referents ; ( 25 ) is a perfectly coherent remark despite the fact that the speaker explicitly denies the existence of one of the principal participants in it : ( 25 ) If Jack had married , his wife would now be the dowager duchess of Luntshire |
| 15 | But one of the most pleasant of functions is that you can select a sentence by triple clicking on a word within it . |
| 16 | One of the advantages of not knowing too much about things is that you can keep sacred cows in the without noticing . |
| 17 | Marx 's main quarrel with writers such as Maine is that they see the communal aspect of the descent group as growing out of the expansion of the family . |
| 18 | One reason was for communications , but another reason that was rather intriguing to scientists was that they could actually look at stars and look at the space between the stars and use a different region of the spectrum , in particular the radio region . |
| 19 | The danger of not including a statement of subject to contract is that one party may subsequently argue that the heads are a binding agreement either as the main contract or as a collateral contract . |
| 20 | I M P A Cs belief is that er if you get the trustee balance right , that 's the first place where the decision ought to be made , but there should be a fall back position which Good has given , which they they trustees could go to the regulator in the case of er not being able to solve things , but our feeling very much on surplus is that the money is there first for to pay pensions and until pensions are paid up to Inland Revenue levels whatever they are , then no money should go back to the company . |
| 21 | ( i ) " Active Play " discs ( CAV : Constant Angular Velocity ) The essential property of these for education is that one revolution of the disc produces one frame of video at any point on the disc . |
| 22 | And the most impressive and frightening and metropolitan thing of all about London was that it was where Bob lived . |
| 23 | Of course , being in the same profession may increase a sense of rivalry between you — but what 's good about friendship is that we can take a little of this . |
| 24 | yeah and they can sell duds and they 're , you know , they 're not missing out , they 'll be making money and it can kill you , and it can kill you even if , you know , you can take the real Ecstasy and it can but supposedly what 's good about Ecstasy is that it 's a designer drug and it gets you on a really good high and you know you dance a lot and you |
| 25 | Meanwhile , former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has attacked Madonna in the most recent issue of Details magazine : ‘ What 's extraordinary about Madonna is that she 's made all these rotten records , and she 's this awful , ugly , dull person who — by virtue of the fact that she 's completely fearless and shameless and blatant and cheap and bad — has become successful , ’ he says . |
| 26 | What citizens expect above all of governments is that they should achieve desirable ends . |
| 27 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 28 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 29 | Speed , consistency , and the ability to answer questions as they arise are the three great benefits of such a system One of the difficulties which personnel managers encounter whenever they get involved in computerisation is that there are apparently so many options available . |
| 30 | What was wholly unacceptable and certainly played no part in the deliberations prior to privatisation was that the coach station would also be sold . |